Academic Challenge
Brenda Wiswell
Grade 6 Science
Safety Procedures
Outcome area: Critical Skills
Creative Thinking
Communication
Content Skills
Understanding of safety rules
and procedures
Students will work collaboratively in pairs at the beginning of the school year. This will be one
of the first challenges they will get from me this year.
Challenge:
One of our classroom rules is to have a safe environment to learn in, this would
include what we might do as part of our science class. I would like you to work in
pairs to plan and create a visual aide that we can display in the classroom of one of
the safety procedures to remind us of how to be safe while working together on
science activities. Each group needs to check with me, to ensure all procedures will
be covered within the class. As you think about the design of your visual aide, keep
in mind the following elements: 1) you need to identify the procedure you are
displaying with a title, 2) you need to clearly display the symbol(s) used for that
procedure, 3) you are to communicate the rules that are needing to be followed
graphically (with pictures), words are not allowed to explain your rules and 4) you
need to create at least two rules that are not found within your textbook. You will
present and explain your visual during class on Friday.
Assessment:
Analytic Trait Rubric
Clarity of procedure symbol: Is the symbol clear and easily seen?
Creative Thinking: Use of graphics to display several rules for the safety procedure
Communication
Worked well in group
Clearly communicated rule for the procedure
Presented with clear voice
Eye contact
Understanding of rules & procedures: Can explain the rule in his/her own words.
Scoring Rubric for Safety procedures visual aide
4
3
Is the
Very accurate
Somewhat
procedural
and easily
accurate and
symbol
visible
easily visible
accurate and
visible?
Graphics are
All graphics are Most of the
creative and
creative and
graphics are
depict the rule
clearly illustrate creative and
well
the rules
clearly illustrate
the rules
Used eye
Used eye
Used eye
contact when
contact the
contact more
presenting
majority of the than 50% of the
project
time
time
Voice clarity
Projected voice Projected voice
and was clear to and was clear to
understand
understand
most of the
time
Clearly
Clearly
Clearly
communicated communicated
communicated
the rules
the rules the
the rules most
majority of the of the time
time
Explained the
100% of the
75%-99% of
rule in his/her
time
the time
own words
Grades
A= 24-22
B=22-20
2
Not very
accurate or
easily visible
but present
1
Is not present in
visual aide
A few of the
graphics are
creative and
clearly illustrate
the rules
Used eye
contact > than
50% of the time
1or 2 graphics
are creative and
clearly illustrate
the rules
Projected voice
and was clear to
understand
some of the
time
Clearly
communicated
the rules some
of the time
Was difficult to
understand and
hard to hear
74%-50% of
the time
<50% of the
time
C=19-18
D=17<
Did not use eye
contact
Had a difficult
time
communicating
the rules